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  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  just made these really cool things. In the same vein I posted Carlos, the ... accidentally drove the lolriokart into an enormous bank of computers in front of ... , like a Segway, is a self-balancing scooter, but, unlike the Segway

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  In case you haven't been on the Internet recently, a music video ... , and now has the third most views on all of Youtube.  560,719,326 views ... the rest of this post to make sense, you should probably catch up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  see in this moment, the door that didn’t open is just *one* door. It may seem like this door is *the* door. We want to tell you that it is ... heartbreaking it felt. We obsessed over MIT unhealthily to the point where going

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  I’m home in Pennsylvania for three weeks, for the second time this summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed ... -it note (it was the second draft, apparently), this: I think it’s safe to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  off the effortlessly forget to turn in an assignment thing. so i had ... last semester to not be about me, the more i was able to do. so in no ... i never really had senioritis in high school—it was probably the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  Charlotte Blonsky a patent: In case reading the crumbly Times New Roman is ... apparatus is that if you spin a mother around in a circle with her head at the center, the baby will come flying out, to be caught in a net. The obvious

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  Roll carts around campus. Marvel at the wonder that is the wheel ... 't stay in MIT forever. Talk to all your friends about how you can't stay in ... . Go on walks alone. Go on walks in the middle of the night. Go on walks

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  to the rain. Maybe the closest thing is how, in those really old ... , from the northeast to the southwest monsoon. Habagat brings in hot, humid ... to the troubles in life, comparing problems with the weather, as

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  to be a teacher in the first place, that they're better people for ... never seem to pick boring applications out of the pile. In fact, I tell ... a few who really got to me, and when they didn't get in, the tears

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  the time of publishing this blog since i like to let my writing marinate a bit before throwing it out there for the internet to judge ... jobs/commitments. In contrast, the main job of PhD students and research

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  visions in my head of what “the return” would be like. A chance to be ... ’t figured out that the best thing to do in a strange new place was to ask for ... -minute walk in the opposite direction. I was just about to collapse on the side

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  that it takes me a couple tries to even get in the right mindset to make ... to delve into some of the things I've been feeling this year about ... timelapse video of the sunset, thoughts on being in a creative slump, an

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  something useful to your profile in the near future, I experimented with an ... Facebook is somewhat infamous on the college software developer scene ... overtime in which developers stay up all night to work on projects outside of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled ... that in real life) Guys. Science is really, really cool. It's amazing ... background science too quickly. Trying to please everyone here. (Here. In

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  :59 tomorrow. If you're on the fence, I have one small bid to make you fall in love. I came to MIT for the people here. I've had wonderful experiences ... least partly captured in our ceiling tiles. Below are the ceiling tiles in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  cool to see in real life. you could see all the wiring on the inside too ... get to classes and things happen along the corridor! which is why i ... application is probably one of the spookiest things you will do in your life and

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  . “Who will get in? What happens to the people who don’t? Who will I become ... is the only path to success, which is a topic for another post.) I ... reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  hallway to the Compton Lounge, where there is a seemingly unlimited supply ... received a notification. We sprinted together down the hallway to 10 ... ] Toscanini’s is one of Boston’s best ice cream stores. We managed to get five

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  driving on the highway while I was in high school. Living in the Boston area ... Transportation Authority (MBTA) can take me, so 9 months into the job, I had to learn how to drive on the highway. I took a couple driving lessons for

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Adulthood Boom!

  

  Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom delightful adventure of aging.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 14, 2013